EP2041014B1 - Procédé permettant d'identifier des groupes d'enveloppes - Google Patents

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EP2041014B1
EP2041014B1 EP07812580.4A EP07812580A EP2041014B1 EP 2041014 B1 EP2041014 B1 EP 2041014B1 EP 07812580 A EP07812580 A EP 07812580A EP 2041014 B1 EP2041014 B1 EP 2041014B1
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Jay T. Moody
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
    • B65H33/04—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by inserting marker slips in pile or stream
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/50—Occurence
    • B65H2511/51—Presence
    • B65H2511/512—Marks, e.g. invisible to the human eye; Patterns
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2551/00—Means for control to be used by operator; User interfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

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  • This invention relates to the creation and processing of folded envelopes.
  • High volume envelope machines capable of accepting stacks of cut sheets of paper or other suitable envelope stock and performing cutting, gluing, and folding operations to produce hundreds of folded envelopes per minute are commercially available from various vendors, for example Winkler + Dünnebier AG.
  • a human operator of the envelope machine will manually load stacks of envelope paper stock in the machine's feed mechanism and a human operator will manually remove the folded envelopes for packaging or other processing as they completed and made available by the machine.
  • High volume envelope machines are well suited for the production of long runs of thousands of identical envelopes, but these machines have not been considered practical or efficient for short envelope print jobs, for example a print job of 100 envelopes. It can be appreciated that if a machine were to be running at a rate that produces hundreds of envelopes each minute with every hundred envelopes produced being a different job printed with different information for a different customer, the operator could find it stressful, or impossible, to keep up with that production pace while still correctly locating and removing the set of folded envelopes associated with each individual envelope job for packaging or other processing.
  • the present invention is directed at satisfying the need for guides and processes that facilitate the ability of an envelope machine operator to quickly identify groups of folded envelopes belonging to individual envelope orders.
  • multiple different envelope jobs are provided to an envelope machine as stacks of sheets of envelope stock.
  • the first sheet of each envelope job stack yields an envelope with visually distinctive edges, such that the group of envelopes in an envelope job can be identified by their position between the envelope formed by the first sheet of the stack and the envelope formed by the first sheet of the next envelope job stack.
  • EP0376463 discloses a code break mechanism for an envelope stacking machine identifying a code break envelope having a different postal code from the prior envelope in a stream of envelopes by laterally displacing the code break envelope.
  • US4688715 discloses a method of making a two-way mailing envelope from a single blank comprising mailing address indicia and return address indicia.
  • EP0436521 and US5403398 disclose identifying zip codes on envelopes in a stream and providing adjacent envelopes with the same zip code with an edge mark at the same location. Adjacent envelopes with a different zip code can be recognized by having the edge mark in a different location.
  • Fig. 1 depicts sheet 100 prior to being processed into a finished envelope by trimming, gluing and folding.
  • the envelope design and proportions depicted in Fig. 1 are merely representative for purposes of discussion. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that envelopes can be of various sizes, shapes, and materials and that the systems and methods disclosed herein are not limited to any particular envelope size, shape, material or trimming details. It will be further understood that envelopes are generally ordered in volume. In fulfilling an order for a requested quantity of custom envelopes, the appropriate number of sheets 100 with the customer's desired images and other information are printed and fed into the envelope machine for processing into folded envelopes. For custom printed envelopes, each sheet 100 is preprinted with return address information 113 and may also be preprinted with additional materials, not shown, such as images, graphics, patterns, or text.
  • Fig. 2 depicts job sheet 200, which has been printed with indicators 201-204.
  • Indicators 201-204 are relatively wide indicia printed at the envelope fold lines such that an envelope created from job sheet 200 will be visually distinctive from regular production envelopes and, therefore, will be readily identifiable by the machine operator.
  • Indicators are positioned on job sheet 200 such that indicator 201 corresponds to the position of fold line 109, indicator 202 corresponds to the position of fold line 110, indicator 203 corresponds to fold line 111, and indicator 204 corresponds to fold line 112.
  • job sheet 200 is also printed with bar code 205 having an individual envelope order identifier for order tracking and shipping purposes.
  • Job sheet 200 may also have various additional printed content, collectively indicated in Fig. 2 as Job information 206, that the envelope manufacturer deems to be useful during the processing of the order.
  • Job information 206 might include, for example, the order date, the envelope printing date, processing instructions, and/or customer information.
  • the bar code 205 and information 206 on the job sheet are also useful in the event of an envelope machine jam or other malfunction while envelope jobs are being produced.
  • one or more different envelope jobs may be fully or partially in process in the machine and one or more sheets of envelope stock in one or more different envelope jobs may have been damaged or improperly processed such that the envelope job will need to be reprinted and reprocessed.
  • the bar code 205 and information 206 allows the envelope manufacturer to quickly identify the damaged or potentially damaged jobs and initiate reprinting with a minimum of delay.
  • the information 206 or the bar code 205 on the job sheets found in the machine can be read and those envelope jobs can be immediately scheduled to be reprinted such that the likelihood of the delivery to the customer being delayed is minimized.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a folded envelope 300 produced from job sheet 200. Because indicators 201-204 were positioned to correspond to the locations of fold lines 109-112, indicators 201-204 will be wrapped over the edges of envelope 300 and will create a visually distinctive envelope 300 edge appearance that allows envelope 300 to be visually identified among a group of other envelopes.
  • the envelope vendor may want to use the envelope created from job sheet 200 to further communicate with or market to the envelope customer by printing additional images and text on the job sheet and packaging the envelope created from the job sheet with the customer's envelopes.
  • content such as the logo of the envelope manufacturer, a thank you message, or a promotional offer for a future purchase, could be printed on sheet 200.
  • Some of this additional image content could be specifically designed and positioned on job sheet 200 such that a portion of the image content crosses one or more of the fold lines 109-112 and yields a visually distinctive envelope edge that serves the function of indicators 201-204.
  • Fig. 4 shows an illustrative schematic representation of an envelope manufacturing process according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the process flow conceptually proceeds in the direction indicated by arrow 400.
  • Each envelope job is fed into envelope machine 405 as a stack of preprinted sheets, such as envelope job stacks 402 and 404, for processing into folded envelopes.
  • a preprinted job sheet as discussed above in connection with Fig. 2 , is positioned on top of the associated stack of preprinted sheets before the sheets are processed by the envelope machine; For example, in Fig. 4 , job sheet 401 associated with stack 402 is positioned on top of the stack, job sheet 403 is positioned on top of its corresponding stack of printed sheets 404, and so forth.
  • the envelope manufacturer may operate the envelope machine continuously for an extended period of time with the machine operator adding additional stacks of envelope jobs to the machine feed mechanism from time to time as required to maintain a continuous supply of input material to the machine such that many stacks are sequentially processed.
  • the folded envelopes produced by the machine are continuously being transferred by the machine into an output area that is accessible to an operator such that the operator can manual remove the envelopes for packaging or other interim processing.
  • the envelopes produced by the machine are positioned by the machine in the machine's output area such that the edges of the folded envelopes are visible to the operator.
  • each rectangle such as 410, represents an edge of a folded envelope.
  • Envelopes created from job sheets, such as envelopes 407 and 408, can be quickly visually identified by the operator by their visually distinctive edges and serve as dividers between different envelope jobs.
  • the operator can quickly view the output envelope queue 406 and see that all envelopes from 407 through 410 are a single envelope print job, with envelope 408 indicating the beginning of the next job.
  • the operator can manually remove all envelopes 409 for packaging or other processing. Because the indicator is printed such that it appears on the top, sides and bottom edges of the folded envelope, any edge that is visible to the operator will provide the visual cue.

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Claims (4)

  1. Méthode de production de multiples commandes différentes d'enveloppes pliées personnalisées, la méthode comprenant :
    la production de plusieurs piles de feuilles (100) de stock d'enveloppes à transformer en des enveloppes pliées possédant un contenu personnalisé imprimé sur celles-ci, chaque pile étant associée avec une commande d'enveloppes ;
    la livraison des plusieurs piles (402, 404) vers une machine de transformation d'enveloppes (405) de sorte que la machine à enveloppes transforme constamment les plusieurs piles en des enveloppes pliées ;
    l'examen visuel des enveloppes produites par la machine à enveloppes ;
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    la disposition d'une première feuille (200, 401, 403) de chaque pile afin de posséder une apparence (201-204) qui diffère de l'apparence des autres feuilles (100) dans la pile, de sorte que lorsque la pile a été transformée en enveloppes pliées, un ou plusieurs bords (109-112) de l'enveloppe formés à partir de la première feuille sera distinctif visuellement de sorte que l'enveloppe (407, 408) formée à partir de la première feuille (200,401, 403) peut être distinguée des enveloppes (410) formées à partir des autres feuilles (100) dans la pile ;
    l'identification de groupes d'enveloppes (409) positionnés entre deux enveloppes (407, 408) formées à partir de premières feuilles (401, 403) telles que correspondantes à une commande d'enveloppe ; et
    le retrait manuel des enveloppes identifiées en vue de poursuivre la transformation.
  2. Méthode selon la revendication 1, comprenant par ailleurs une indication imprimée (201-204) sur une ligne de pli d'enveloppe (109-112) sur la première feuille (200, 401, 403) de sorte qu'une enveloppe pliée à partir de la première feuille est identifiable par l'indication.
  3. Méthode selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle chaque première feuille (200, 401, 403) possède des informations (205, 206) imprimées sur celle-ci identifiant au moins la commande d'enveloppe.
  4. Méthode selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans laquelle l'enveloppe formée à partir de la première feuille (200, 401, 403) est livrée au client avec la commande d'enveloppe.
EP07812580.4A 2006-07-05 2007-07-03 Procédé permettant d'identifier des groupes d'enveloppes Not-in-force EP2041014B1 (fr)

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